
What Do You Know About Hypnosis?
IF YOU THINK: It’s a matter having a good imagination. |
THE REALITY IS: The ability to imagine vividly is unrelated to hypnotizability. |
Relaxation is an important feature of hypnosis. |
It’s not. Hypnosis has even been induced during vigorous exercise. |
It’s a matter of willful faking. |
Psychological responses indicate that hypnotized subjects are not lying. |
It’s dangerous. |
Standard hypnotic procedures are not any more distressing then lectures. |
It has something to do with a sleep-like state. |
It does not. Hypnotized subject are fully awake. |
Responding to hypnosis is like responding to a placebo. |
Placebo responsiveness and hypnotizability are not correlated. |
People with certain types of personalities are more likely to be hypnotized. |
There are no substantial correlations with personality measures. |
People who are hypnotized lose control of themselves.
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Subjects are perfectly capable of saying “No” or of terminating hypnosis. |
Hypnosis can enable people to relive the past. |
Age–regressed adults behave like adults playacting as children. |
A person’s responsiveness to hypnosis depends on the technique used and who administers it. |
Neither is important under laboratory conditions. It is the subject’s capacity that’s important. |
When hypnotized – people can’t remember more accurately.
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Hypnosis may actually muddle the distinction between memory and fantasy and may artificially inflate confidence. |
Hypnotized people can be lead to do acts that will conflict with their values. |
Hypnotized subjects fully adhere to their usual moral standards, ethics and beliefs. |
Hypnotized people do not remember what happened during the session. |
Post–hypnotic amnesia does not spontaneously return. |
Hypnosis can enable people to perform with otherwise impossible feats, strengths, endurance, learning and sensory acuity. |
Performance following hypnotic suggestions or increased muscle strengths, learning and sensory acuity does not exceed what can be accomplished by motivated subjects out of hypnosis. |
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